GEOG101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Kitimat, Dependency Theory, North American Free Trade Agreement

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Uneven development: cultivable land, uneven distribution, variable quality, carrying capacity. Improved transport and communications: access to foreign markets, wage differentials. International competition: homogenization of consumer tastes, e. g. Mcdonalds: fashion, technology, global consumer markets, globalization of consumption, transnational corporations, global branding/marketing, world products, social media. International chain stores: homogenization of consumption, centralized corporate policies, fast food, supermarkets. Geography of economic globalization: globalized assembly line, maximizes economies of scale, costs are different around the world, raw materials, labour, transportation, get the product closer to the market where people will buy them. Lower minimum wage: very close to the united states. Large scale production thousands of people in one factory: why do mexicans work in these factories, provides job stability. Longer term contract: add more skills, transferrable, maquiladora centers, hundreds of thousands of workers, within a few km of the us border. International patterns of development: developmentalism (rostow) every country, progression towards postindustrial/prosperity, traditional society.

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